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We study integrable models in the Bianchi I metric case with scalar fields minimally and non-minimally coupled with gravity and the correspondence between their general solutions. Using the model with a minimally coupled scalar field and a…

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We present a new formulation for the canonical approach to conformal (Weyl-squared) gravity and its extension by the Einstein-Hilbert term and a nonminimally coupled scalar field. For this purpose we use a unimodular decomposition of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-19 Claus Kiefer , Branislav Nikolic

Canonical quantization of spherically symmetric initial data which is appropriate to classical interior black hole solutions in four dimensions is carried out and solved exactly without gauge fixing the remaining kinematic Gauss Law…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Chung-Hsien Chou , Chopin Soo , Hoi-Lai Yu

We analyze a theory with non-minimal matter-curvature coupling, considering non-metricity properties with a Weyl connection. This model has the advantage of an extra force term which can mimic dark matter and dark energy, and simultaneously…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 M. Lima , C. Gomes

We consider Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker flat cosmological models in the framework of general Jordan frame scalar-tensor theories of gravity with arbitrary coupling function and potential. For the era when the cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-06 Laur Järv , Piret Kuusk , Margus Saal

While conformal transformations in metric scalar-tensor theories recover General Relativity, this feature is notably absent in standard non-metricity-based theories. We demonstrate that by introducing the boundary term C, a non-metricity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-16 Ghulam Murtaza , Avik De , Tee-How Loo , Andronikos Paliathanasis

Wheeler-DeWitt equation is applied to $k > 0$ Friedmann Robertson Walker metric with various types of matter. It is shown that if the Universe ends in the matter dominated era (e.g., radiation or pressureless gas) with zero cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 Jong Hyun Kung

In recent years, the use of conformal transformation techniques has become widespread in the literature on gravitational theories alternative to general relativity, on cosmology, and on nonminimally coupled scalar fields. Typically, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Valerio Faraoni , Edgard Gunzig , Pasquale Nardone

We construct a Bohmian quantum cosmological model for a spatially flat Friedmann Robertson Walker universe filled with a single scalar field whose potential provides a unified description of cold dark matter and dark energy at the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Spyros Basilakos , Gerasimos Kouniatalis , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Charalampos Tzerefos

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new way to inquire the quantum cosmology for a certain gravitational theory. Normally, the quantum cosmological model is introduced as the minisuperspace theory which is obtained by reducing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-07 Miao He , Zi-Liang Wang , Jian-Bo Deng , Hua Chen

In the framework of teleparallel equivalent of general relativity, we study a gravity theory where a scalar field beyond its minimal coupling, is also coupled with the vector torsion through a non-minimal derivative coupling. After a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-14 Behnaz Fazlpour

We quantize the interaction of gravity with Yang-Mills and spinor fields, hence offering a quantum theory incorporating all four fundamental forces of nature. Using canonical quantization we obtain solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-03-25 Claus Gerhardt

The d'Alembertian $\Box\phi=0$ has solution $\phi=f(v)/r$, where $f$ is a function of a null coordinate $v$, and this allows creation of a divergent singularity out of nothing. In scalar-Einstein theory a similar situation arises both for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-16 Mark D. Roberts

Retrieval of classical behaviour in quantum cosmology is usually discussed in the framework of {\em midi}superspace models in the presence of scalar fields and the inhomogeneous modes corresponding either to gravitational or scalar fields.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 O. Bertolami , P. V. Moniz

It is well known that a minimal distance emerges in quantum field theories owing to the need to regularize the UV divergences. The macroscopical limit at large minimal distance, weak spatial resolution, is investigated for a self…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-22 S. Nagy , J. Polonyi

A modified form of non-locally corrected theory of gravity is investigated in the context of cosmology and the Newtonian limit. This form of non-local correction to classic Einstein-Hilbert action can be locally represented by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Dao-Jun Liu , Bin Yang , Xing-Hua Jin

This paper deals with several technical issues of non-perturbative four-dimensional Lorentzian canonical quantum gravity in the continuum that arose in connection with the recently constructed Wheeler-DeWitt quantum constraint operator. 1)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Thomas Thiemann

We exactly solve the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the closed homogeneous and isotropic quantum cosmology in the presence of a conformally coupled scalar field and in the context of the generalized uncertainty principle. This form of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-12 Pouria Pedram

We study the constraint equations for the Einstein-scalar field system on compact manifolds. Using the conformal method we reformulate these equations as a determined system of nonlinear partial differential equations. By introducing a new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat , James Isenberg , Daniel Pollack

This paper discusses the problem of inflation in the context of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Cosmology. We show how, after a simple change of variables, to quantize the problem in a way which parallels the classical discussion. The result is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Marvin Weinstein , Ratindranath Akhoury